Kevin McCarthy Vows To Remove Squad Member Ilhan Omar From Committee

 

Kevin McCarthy Vows To Remove Squad Member Ilhan Omar From Committee (townhall.com)

  When Democrats had control of the House in 2021, they removed Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) from her committee after she publicly supported QAnon. In response, McCarthy said that he would retaliate if he becomes elected speaker. 

Kevin McCarthy vows to kick Ilhan Omar OFF the House Foreign Affairs Committee as speaker | Daily Mail Online  . . ."McCarthy could not remove Omar from a committee unless a majority of House members voted in favor of doing so, as a Twitter fact check on his claim points out.  

"McCarthy has also previously promised to reinstate Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's committee assignments after Democrats stripped her of them after a number of incendiary statements. Now, Greene is a vocal McCarthy supporter and has promised to whip her Freedom Caucus colleagues in line behind him. 

"Since being elected to Congress in 2018, Omar has been accused of antisemitism after a number of statement she's made. She once said it was 'all about the Benjamins' for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and tweeted, 'We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,' seeming to equate Israel to Hamas. 

"McCarthy's reference to 'what she said about me' likely points at when Omar called him 'a liar and a coward' after he refused to discipline Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., after she said Omar was a member of the 'jihad squad,' joking that she feared Omar, a Somali-American Muslim, carried a bomb.". . .

Shouldn't the Democrats want her off? 

But can he?

The Speaker does not have the power to remove a member from a standing committee. Foreign Affairs is a standing committee. Each party has their own rules and procedures for assigning committee roles. Only a majority vote by the entire house could remove Rep. Omar. https://www.legbranch.org/2018-8-15-removing-house-members-from-standing-committees/ https://cha.house.gov/member-services/house-rules https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-HPREC-DESCHLERS-V1/pdf/GPO-HPREC-DESCHLERS-V1-3-3-8.pdf